Re: [Dovecot] Best way from Mbox to Maildir using 2.17?

2013-11-05 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Mon, 2013-11-04 at 19:29 +1000, Noel Butler wrote: [...] think in postfix home_mailbox = Maildir/ will do it, with sendmail its much more tricky and your best sticking with mbox, if exim, NFI - dont Or - strategically - you use dovecot's LDA which should know where to throw the mails in.

Re: [Dovecot] Best way from Mbox to Maildir using 2.17?

2013-11-05 Thread Noel Butler
On 05/11/2013 17:30, SATOH Fumiyasu wrote: At Tue, 5 Nov 2013 08:10:46 +0100 (CET), Steffen Kaiser wrote: http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/mb2md/ The program has at least 2 bugs in it: . If the body has paragraph break (i.e., '\n') followed by the RFC822 keyword 'From', the

Re: [Dovecot] Best way from Mbox to Maildir using 2.17?

2013-11-05 Thread Noel Butler
On 05/11/2013 19:44, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: On Mon, 2013-11-04 at 19:29 +1000, Noel Butler wrote: [...] think in postfix home_mailbox = Maildir/ will do it, with sendmail its much more tricky and your best sticking with mbox, if exim, NFI - dont Or - strategically - you use dovecot's LDA

Re: [Dovecot] Best way from Mbox to Maildir using 2.17?

2013-11-05 Thread Daniele Nicolodi
On 05/11/2013 11:04, Noel Butler wrote: On 05/11/2013 19:44, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: On Mon, 2013-11-04 at 19:29 +1000, Noel Butler wrote: [...] think in postfix home_mailbox = Maildir/ will do it, with sendmail its much more tricky and your best sticking with mbox, if exim, NFI - dont

Re: [Dovecot] Best way from Mbox to Maildir using 2.17?

2013-11-05 Thread Noel Butler
On 05/11/2013 20:11, Daniele Nicolodi wrote: On 05/11/2013 11:04, Noel Butler wrote: but using system users, you wouldnt use dovecot's LDA :) Why not? pure overkill, your MTA already knows where it goes, it doesnt need to do any special lookups, would you use postfix virtual, to

Re: [Dovecot] Best way from Mbox to Maildir using 2.17?

2013-11-05 Thread Daniele Nicolodi
On 05/11/2013 12:24, Noel Butler wrote: On 05/11/2013 20:11, Daniele Nicolodi wrote: On 05/11/2013 11:04, Noel Butler wrote: but using system users, you wouldnt use dovecot's LDA :) Why not? pure overkill, your MTA already knows where it goes, it doesnt need to do any special

Re: [Dovecot] Best way from Mbox to Maildir using 2.17?

2013-11-05 Thread Benny Pedersen
Noel Butler skrev den 2013-11-05 12:24: On 05/11/2013 20:11, Daniele Nicolodi wrote: On 05/11/2013 11:04, Noel Butler wrote: pure overkill, your MTA already knows where it goes, it doesnt need to do any special lookups, would you use postfix virtual, to deliver local user? no, of course you

Re: [Dovecot] Best way from Mbox to Maildir using 2.17?

2013-11-05 Thread Noel Butler
On 05/11/2013 22:04, Daniele Nicolodi wrote: On 05/11/2013 12:24, Noel Butler wrote: On 05/11/2013 20:11, Daniele Nicolodi wrote: On 05/11/2013 11:04, Noel Butler wrote: but using system users, you wouldnt use dovecot's LDA :) Why not? pure overkill, your MTA already knows where it

Re: [Dovecot] Best way from Mbox to Maildir using 2.17?

2013-11-05 Thread Noel Butler
On 06/11/2013 05:08, Benny Pedersen wrote: Noel Butler skrev den 2013-11-05 12:24: On 05/11/2013 20:11, Daniele Nicolodi wrote: On 05/11/2013 11:04, Noel Butler wrote: pure overkill, your MTA already knows where it goes, it doesnt need to do any special lookups, would you use postfix

Re: [Dovecot] Best way from Mbox to Maildir using 2.17?

2013-11-05 Thread Daniele Nicolodi
On 05/11/2013 23:39, Noel Butler wrote: On 05/11/2013 22:04, Daniele Nicolodi wrote: On 05/11/2013 12:24, Noel Butler wrote: On 05/11/2013 20:11, Daniele Nicolodi wrote: On 05/11/2013 11:04, Noel Butler wrote: but using system users, you wouldnt use dovecot's LDA :) Why not? pure

Re: [Dovecot] Best way from Mbox to Maildir using 2.17?

2013-11-04 Thread Noel Butler
On 04/11/2013 14:33, Regan Yelcich wrote: On 2/11/2013, at 11:40 pm, Noel Butler noel.but...@ausics.net wrote: On 02/11/2013 20:25, Regan Yelcich wrote: Can someone advise the best way to convert mailboxes from Mbox to Maildir for Dovecot 2.17 on Ubuntu? Thanks. mb2md.pl

Re: [Dovecot] Best way from Mbox to Maildir using 2.17?

2013-11-04 Thread Regan Yelcich
Thanks for the tips Noel I'll give that a go. I'm moving just a small number of mailboxes over from system users on one server to a new server using a virtual user setup = dovecot + postfix postfix admin using MySQL. Thanks! On 4/11/2013, at 10:29 pm, Noel Butler noel.but...@ausics.net

Re: [Dovecot] Best way from Mbox to Maildir using 2.17?

2013-11-04 Thread Mark Moore
On 11/04/2013 02:29 AM, Noel Butler wrote: On 04/11/2013 14:33, Regan Yelcich wrote: On 2/11/2013, at 11:40 pm, Noel Butler noel.but...@ausics.net wrote: On 02/11/2013 20:25, Regan Yelcich wrote: Can someone advise the best way to convert mailboxes from Mbox to Maildir for Dovecot 2.17 on

Re: [Dovecot] Best way from Mbox to Maildir using 2.17?

2013-11-04 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2013-11-04 10:16 AM, Mark Moore mmo...@ucar.edu wrote: Another annoyance was prefixing the newly created mail folders with a '.' this is standard for maildir... http://www.courier-mta.org/maildir.html -- Best regards, */Charles/*

Re: [Dovecot] Best way from Mbox to Maildir using 2.17?

2013-11-04 Thread Noel Butler
On 05/11/2013 01:16, Mark Moore wrote: mb2md.pl http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/mb2md/ The program has at least 2 bugs in it: . If the body has paragraph break (i.e., '\n') followed by the RFC822 keyword 'From', the original message will loose the last half of the message and

Re: [Dovecot] Best way from Mbox to Maildir using 2.17?

2013-11-04 Thread Mark Moore
On 11/04/2013 06:28 PM, Noel Butler wrote: Another annoyance was prefixing the newly created mail folders with a '.' As Charles has already mentioned, thats how Maildir works I'd modify this to 'the way Maildir wants it'not necessarily the way it _must_ work. I suspected the

Re: [Dovecot] Best way from Mbox to Maildir using 2.17?

2013-11-04 Thread Steffen Kaiser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 5 Nov 2013, Noel Butler wrote: On 05/11/2013 01:16, Mark Moore wrote: mb2md.pl http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/mb2md/ The program has at least 2 bugs in it: . If the body has paragraph break (i.e., '\n') followed by the

Re: [Dovecot] Best way from Mbox to Maildir using 2.17?

2013-11-04 Thread SATOH Fumiyasu
At Tue, 5 Nov 2013 08:10:46 +0100 (CET), Steffen Kaiser wrote: http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/mb2md/ The program has at least 2 bugs in it: . If the body has paragraph break (i.e., '\n') followed by the RFC822 keyword 'From', the original message will loose the last half of

Re: [Dovecot] Best way from Mbox to Maildir using 2.17?

2013-11-03 Thread Regan Yelcich
On 2/11/2013, at 11:40 pm, Noel Butler noel.but...@ausics.net wrote: On 02/11/2013 20:25, Regan Yelcich wrote: Can someone advise the best way to convert mailboxes from Mbox to Maildir for Dovecot 2.17 on Ubuntu? Thanks. mb2md.pl http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/mb2md/ I

Re: [Dovecot] Best way from Mbox to Maildir using 2.17?

2013-11-02 Thread Noel Butler
On 02/11/2013 20:25, Regan Yelcich wrote: Can someone advise the best way to convert mailboxes from Mbox to Maildir for Dovecot 2.17 on Ubuntu? Thanks. mb2md.pl http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/mb2md/